From the author and director Casper Kelly, known for viral video “Too Many Cooks” as well as Mandy’s Cheddar Goblin, comes Adult Swim Yule Log. As expected, this is not an ordinary, looped footage of a flickering fire. In the style of Too Many Cooks, conventional holiday videos turn into some sort of absurd Christmas Horror movie on a budget; consider ThanksKilling series taken to extreme with the third part being called out-of-bounds Thanskilling 3. This looks like the Christmas Horror version of ThanksKilling when it comes to how Kelly makes a burning piece of wood into a horror character. First adult swim fright flick looks like those schlocky ‘80s midnight movies where chaos reigns over coherence. Maybe burn this strain if you are already hungry on weed?
For the development of Adult Swim Yule Log project, Kelly had totally kept it secret so that it started off by looking like any other crackling fireplace ASMR YouTube loop with dancing flames behind it all. At first glance, Adult Swim Yule Log seems to be celebrating its holiday with home invasions in an Airbnb (the setup is similar to Barbarian), incomprehensible creature features (similar to The Killing Tree), and space travel gone amok sci-fi probes Deeper meanings in American culture can be found through historical analysis of horror comedy such as stories about possessed logs tied to slave-hanging trees.
The ambition levels cannot be faulted under which Adult Swim Yule Log was created. By using smoldering wood that smashes faces into bloody pulps while introducing Pleatherface, played by Brendan Patrick Connor). Like twenty back-and-forth racquetball games squeezed onto one court-he displayed comprehension at the same height. One thing though- vacationing couple Zoe (Andrea Laing) and Alex (Justin Miles) are living outside their normality until we start viewing Alex’s camera- he is a YouTube vlogger who makes Yule Log videos. They will take us through the most brutal beatings, wildest storytelling techniques, and craziest Christmas Horror ideas since Santa Jaws.
Given its similarity to countless Yule Log videos that have been streamed throughout time, Kelly can cleverly unwrap his yuletide massacre. It feels like Kelly’s camera won’t move from the fire and whatever we are watching will include those walking in and out of frame as both criminals and victims. The perspective widens when a living room set backs up into view with an identical idea that brings characters into our lives as though they are on a theater stage — this couldn’t survive for 90 minutes. Thus, the focal point of camera jumps off Alex’s tripod to frame walls with third-person film-making defined fly-on-the wall; it is Adult Swim Yule Log sequels before finding experiential stability. There’re Adult Swimisms but not so sharp as to turn away viewers with an hour-and-a-half slasher-movie filmed from the viewpoint of someone sitting at home near a Yule Log fire.
Kelly’s “Too Many Cooks” sitcom hellscape is a problem because it’s only 11 minutes long, which makes the gags transform rapidly due to time constraints. Adult Swim Yule Log thus adds and adds to subplot after subplot without even bothering with the substance that would make them necessary, throwing diversion after redefinition against the wall — yet the rapid-fire containment of Adult Swim favorites like Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is sorely missed. A Texas Chain Saw riff changes into a ditzy teen slasher that fades and wipes start overlapping previous victims of the Yule Log from bygone eras until their stories start conflicting with Zoe and Alex. Then Thankskilling vibes embrace goofiness but historical traumas of enslaved people cut through insanely cheapo digital and practical effects. In other words, you’re definitely watching an Adult Swim oddball — one that becomes less stable as it goes further.
This is unfortunate because Adult Swim Yule Log can be genuinely madcap and worth delirious seasonal laughs in bits. Kelly’s comedic fearlessness is both superhero strength and Achilles heel: it results in pimento cheese breath line readings or adorably homemade special effects galore. Sometimes, there are times when Adult Swim Yule Log seems like something recorded onto VHS that your older sibling or cousin shows you when you’re way too young – I cackled so hard when this Yule Log horror translation was first introduced? Because Christmas Horror works differently for Kelly, jokes must not die on arrival–hilarity should rather evolve beyond initial shocks; however, Christmas Horror signatures go down like lead balloons at feature film length.
Verdict
Adult Swim Yule Log bites off more than it can chew in a way only Adult Swim can. Casper Kelly who psycho-parodies everything from strange horror titles to anything turned into an entity out to kill while also unravelling deadly serious social commentaries. It’s abstract art, theater camp, found footage foolishness, hunt-and-stalk depravity — Adult Swim Yule Log is a whole lot of things but, even with a full 90 minutes, few angles feel fully fleshed out. So maybe there’s a good reason why Adult Swim has cornered the market on shorter-form comedy styles? Instead of sending powerful storytelling gusts through its lengthening sails, Adult Swim Yule Log collapses – notes a devout and disappointed midnight movie fan.
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